Todd Gregory

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Hi, stupid question here. Do I need to pay for this in addition to my Channel 6 subscription?

William Walker (filibuster) - Wikipedia

Your periodic reminder that this guy existed, and that the word "filibustering" used to have a much different meaning.

brevity is the whatever

Yeah, and it doesn't seem easy to fix

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

The real grey goo is bullshit like this (🎁) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Decoldest Crawford, legend

Incredible things happening in this thread

Switching the setting on the dressing gong to "kill"

I think you can never have too many enchiladas tbh

devastating

I dreamed a fake word last night: "overmoleated." It means something like "unnecessarily finely differentiated," I think

What your mentions look like when you say that bamboo tastes bad

New display name 👍🏻

It's a good thing I have to work now, because a certain ~discourse~ has rendered the ol' TL completely useless

Whoever came up with the idea that hand dryers in public restrooms should live next to faucets in the exact same shallow sink should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

It's almost like they're out of ideas

I remember thinking at the end of Eternals, are they gonna have the guts to reference the giant hand-thing in the ocean at any point after this? Yup!

I think it was very brave that they made a Marvel movie where the necessary points of reference are The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Eternals (2021). And credit to them on that last one: The only thing I remember from that movie is the giant hand-thing in the ocean.

Why one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded caused so little damage A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did Tuesday's mega-quake cause so little harm?

Good work, @latimes.com

Oh, you play the cor anglais? Please stop trying to impress me, I know that's just a fancy oboe

I honestly can't believe pluots are a thing, seems so low effort

The thing about oppressive heat is that it oppresses. You can see that there are fewer people on the sidewalk in NYC right now.

Hot enough for ya?

Estivating

In fairness to those educated people, beyond, yes, knowing overall the difference between lie and lay, I had to drill the variations repeatedly into my own brain to get them right, and even knowing them as well as I do I'm not above looking at my own book to be sure when "lain" kicks in.

If you don't respect raccoons, I don't respect you

The Hatters!

Ehhh it took that tone, that's not out of left field

I know that This Must Be the Place is kind of a cliche pick at this point, but I don't care